HHG Awards - Consistent Best of Delaware Winners

    Harry’s Savoy Grill

    Kid Shelleen’s Charcoal House & Saloon

    • Best Brunch 
    • Best Restaurant in Trolley Square
    • Best Family-Friendly Restaurant – Upstate

    Xavier Teixido
    Owner
    xat@harrys-savoy.com

    Xavier Teixido’s restaurant career has taken him from the Brandywine Racetrack in Wilmington to Commander’s Palace in New Orleans and back to Wilmington, where he purchased Harry’s Savoy Grill in 1993. With a $3 million ballroom addition opened in 1998, Harry’s became a Brandywine Hundred favorite for fine dining as well as weddings and other special events. In 2003, Xavier took the Harry’s name and reputation to a third venture, opening Harry’s Seafood Grill on Wilmington’s Riverfront. In 2010, he and partners David Banks and Kelly O’Hanlon purchased Kid Shelleen’s in Trolley Square. A former president of the Delaware Restaurant Association and Delaware Restaurateur of the Year for 1999, Xavier brought attention to the First State when he served as chairman of the National Restaurant Association (2002-2003) and chaired the Board of Trustees of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (2011-2012). He is also an advocate for the restaurant industry in Delaware, serving on the state’s Tourism Advisory Board and the University of Delaware Hotel Restaurant Institutional Management (HRIM) Advisory Board. In March of 2017, Xavier was awarded the Thad and Alice Eure Ambassador of Hospitality Award by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation.  He is active in many charitable causes and has established a culture of community service at Harry’s which offers both encouragement and bonuses to employees who give their time to serve the community.

    Thad and Alice Eure Ambassador of Hospitality Award Video

    Kelly O’Hanlon
    Director of Operations/Partner, Harry’s Hospitality Group
    kellyo@harrys-savoy.com

    A bartender from Kentucky with an accounting degree, Kelly started behind the bar at Harry’s Savoy Grill in 1995 and quickly rose to the position of bar manager. She was later named restaurant manager at Harry’s Savoy Grill, and became general manager of Harry’s Seafood Grill when it opened in 2003. In 2007, she assumed management of all Harry’s restaurants and became a partner with Xavier Teixido and David Banks with the purchase of Kid Shelleen’s Charcoal House & Saloon in Trolley Square. Her guest-focused approach and emphasis on high standards contributed to the restaurant’s huge success. Kelly believes in “keeping it fun,” and is still able to concoct creative cocktails at a moment’s notice.